Microsoft has become the first giant to focus on shooter games to explore whether video games can enhance education. Although many studies are in progress to explore the link between education and video games, they...

Microsoft recently released Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 Beta for Windows 7 which allows you to link your Windows User Accounts with your Windows Live ID. This may sound something similar to .NET Passport...

digg_url = "http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/05/07/microsoft-extends-deadline-for-outlook-link-to-hotmail"; Microsoft has extended the deadline for being able to download Hotmail email through Outlook Express using the DAV protocol, previously it said that this wouldn't be possible after June 30th,...

Tuesday's update to Windows Vista's PatchGuard, a kernel protection scheme designed to keep malicious or unproven code at arm's length, had nothing to do with recent hacks of another Vista defense, Microsoft said Thursday. The...

As Wikipedia's user base grows, the charm of the site for spammers grows. The online encyclopaedia's popularity and its ease of editing made has made it a desirable target for link spammers - successfully placing...

Apple Computer faces a U.S. lawsuit, which follows charges in Europe, over tying its iTunes music store to the iPod digital music player. Apple revealed the suit, submitted in July to the U.S. District Court...

Yahoo and Microsoft announced that they would tear down the wall between their formerly exclusive instant messaging services and allow members to mingle beginning today. The union of Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger systems...

A recent publication by Iowa State University researchers titled "The Effects of Video Game Violence on Physiological Desensitization to Real-Life Violence" appears to show a strong empirical link between desensitization to violence and exposure to...

Resort Labs has just released version 2.5 of the bookmark organizer Link Commander. This aplication is a fully-automated bookmark manager capable of organizing, cataloguing, sorting and synchronizing web links by integrating seamlessly with popular browsers...

Link Commander is a browser independent bookmark manager, that allows you to maintain and organize your Favorites. It comes with a built in browser display, and can also be configured to use Internet Explorer or...

Logitech today eliminated a major nuisance for online gamers: connecting a gaming system to an inconveniently located broadband Internet connection. The new Logitech Play Link wireless extension offers one-step wireless. Consumers just plug it...

A new variant of the Atak worm, initially dubbed Atak.B, has been reported by most antivirus companies. However, the buzz around the malware—with its reported connection to the terrorist group Al Qaeda—may be greater than...

Microsoft will alter a Windows XP music-purchasing feature in response to criticism from the U.S. government, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday. In a notice filed with the federal judge overseeing...

Federal and state regulators have voiced concern that a feature in Windows XP that involves online music purchasing may violate terms of Microsoft's antitrust settlement. The issue surfaced in a court-mandated briefing filed...

Hyperactive children spend much longer playing computer games and watching TV than healthy children, researchers say. They asked parents and teachers about the habits of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Children with ADHD...

A rumour linking graphics chipset manufacturer NVIDIA with the PlayStation 3 has been described as "ridiculous" by a senior source, who claims that the company will design its own GPU for the console. ...

A European Commission working paper on linking national government IT systems across Europe is recommending open source software. The paper, Linking up Europe: the Importance of Interoperability for E-government Services, stressed that the planned...

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 to Help Insurance Industry Cut Processing Time and Costs, Reduce Errors Today at the 2003 ACORD Conference Microsoft Corp. and the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and...

A Sydney software developer has paired up with Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services in a $US100 million ($181 million) deal to supply technology to the State Bank of India. The world's third-largest bank...

Novell is expected to release as early as next week a version of its metadirectory software that works with more applications, including those on remote machines that aren't on NetWare networks. Like other...